Experiments In Motion

FLUIDIC - Sculpture in Motion

A seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels).

The moving XXX Sofa

Snuggle up or give yourself some breathing room.

This weekend (April 27-28), New Habitat will be hosting a hackathon as part of the Ideas City Festival that will present architecture as an “API” to be hacked. The hackathon will mobilize a diverse group of architects, designers, artists, engineers, and technologists by providing the designs for a proposed building in New York City to be hacked away at, into and through to new ideas for domestic living.

The vicious cycle of innovation that opensource knowledge and infrastructure and a hacker ethos has ignited in other fields has yet to adequately disrupt architecture, buildings, the environments we inhabit on a daily basis. Cities have been hacked to death, but somehow the walls of architecture have stood firm. No longer.

New Habitat is a venture to do precisely what it claims, to rethink habitats. To participate, hackers of all stripe can register on Eventbrite at new-habitat.eventbrite.com. The hackathon will occur at the NewLab space at the Brooklyn Navy Yards on April 27-28, with a public presentation the following Friday, May 3 at the Ideas City Festival, hosted by the New Museum, The Architectural League of New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture and other amazing NY-based organizations.

Experiments with Water and Sound

This is what happens when you combine: a powered speaker, water source, soft rubber hose, tone generating software, 24 fps camera, and tape. via

The Shape of Sound

The project  80 mesh - the shape of the sound  is created with the aim to investigate the concepts that belong to the language of the mosaic, aggregation and disaggregation, pattern repetition and modularity through the use of sound and its possibilities morphogenesis.

3D Printed Dress Brings Technology to the Paris Catwalk

Are robot produced clothes the future of fashion and couture? This dress was the result of a collaboration between by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen and professor Neri Oxman from the MIT’s Media Lab. Interview here

A Year in Motion

An overview of the first year of Experiments in Motion, a partnership between Audi of America and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

The Future of Light

Audi OLED Swarm technology creates a responsive interface that reacts to the driver’s touch and visualizes speed and direction.

(Source: blog.experimentsinmotion.com)

Dark Senses

A series of moving explorations using magnetized liquid and suspended metals. via 

LED and Xenon Technology for a Smarter Headlight

Featured in #Braverywins, the LED and xenon lights for the Audi S6 can pivot up to 15 degrees to help you see around curves while dedicated static cornering lamps shine at wider angles to aid with sharper turns.